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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 07:58 AM
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FOX News rearranging weekend line-up to air terror film, scare jaded voters to polls


FOX News Channel has announced that it will air "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West,"

"(a) frightening new documentary by filmmaker Wayne Kopping ....
What he found, is something FOX News believes every American should know."

The film, which is actually a year old, will be shown four (4) times this weekend to help Republicans scare their base to the polls. Along with plenty of footage accusing Democrats of not getting it (an O'Reilly favorite) and Dick Morris' sickening new anti-Democrat smear commercial, FOX is pulling out all the stops to support their party.

Another article at FOXNews.com says that

"We often hear that 9/11 was a wake-up call for Americans. But have Americans really woken up to the truth of how much radical Islamists want us dead, and the lengths to which they are willing to go to fulfill their mission?

According to a shocking new (sic) documentary called “Obsession,” the free world is still unprepared to face the unwavering commitment of those who have pledged their lives to our destruction. The film states that we suffer not so much from complacency, but from the naïve disbelief that we remain targets of thousands, perhaps millions of radical Muslims around the world."

In other words, we're not scared enough (yet) to turn over ALL our rights to the executive branch. Maybe this'll do it - it's worth a shot, right?

From Libertas, "a forum for conservative thought on film":


"We’ve just received word that this weekend Fox News will be presenting a 40 minute version of the film Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West that had its World Premiere at the 2005 Liberty Film Festival. Obsession was the Best Feature Film winner from last year’s festival, and will be playing on Fox News Saturday Nov. 4th at 8pm/1am/5am, and Sunday Nov. 5th at 10pm.

We’re told these will be Fox News special TV broadcasts, i.e., they redid their lineups to make this happen, and that they will be advertising the show on TV commercials in advance. Following the film will be an interview with director Wayne Kopping."

We’re extremely proud to have done the World Premiere of Obsession, and we’re thrilled that Fox News will be re-arranging its line-up - right at the height of election season - to air this important film. The purpose of The Liberty Film Festival is to discover such films and bring them to the public.

Clearly this is intended to reach the voters who still think that the Bush administration can keep us safer than Democrats and who conflate the war in Iraq with the so-called war on terror. This blatant electioneering by a so-called news channel erases for once and for all any pretense that FOX is fair or balanced - it is right-wing propaganda and nothing more.

http://www.newshounds.us/2006/11/02/fox_news_rearranging_weekend_lineup_to_air_terror_film_scare_jaded_voters_to_polls.php
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:00 AM
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1. WOw. SO all the undecideds who watch Fox might vote R
that's like, um, ZERO people
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:07 AM
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2. Yeah, I think a great majority of Americans know........
that FUX News is nothing more than the Bush Administration's propaganda channel. FUX is pretty much preaching to their choir here. Not very many true Independents watch old,"fair and balanced" FUX, not if they have a scintilla of intelligence anyway.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:22 AM
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6. It isn't meant for the undecided
it is meant for their constituents so they will vote in numbers

The only way we can insure victory is for DEMOCRATS TO VOTE IN NUMBERS



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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:42 AM
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10. Do you mean all those Faux viewers who have been
causing Fox polls to skew Dem?

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Laelth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:10 AM
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3. SOP
for the SOBs.

:mad:

Thanks, as always, for the NewsHounds work. I like not having to watch Fox.

-Laelth
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:10 AM
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4. Now they are showing propoganda FILMS ??
Geez.... they certainly are shameless.
I hope they spent a shitload of money on that piece of repub poop
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:18 AM
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5. If they're watching FOX, they're already intellectually lost
Fuggedaboutem.

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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:28 AM
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7. So true
Anyone who watches Faux on a regular basis is already brain-dead.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 09:23 AM
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12. Here's an example of the brain dead.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 09:35 AM
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13. I love Raptureorbust's avatar ...


:rofl:
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:30 AM
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8. Sign of desperation n/t
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:34 AM
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9. This movie is the baby of Glenn Beck
if you turn on his radio show for more than 10 minutes (hard to do I know) he will mention it at least once.
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 08:44 AM
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11. How much did this very important film make at the box office?
:sarcasm:
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